Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, a new weekly discussion that searches for the truth about psychiatric prescription drugs and mental health care worldwide.

This podcast is part of Mad in America’s mission to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care. We believe that the current drug-based paradigm of care has failed our society and that scientific research, as well as the lived experience of those who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, calls for profound change.

On the podcast over the coming weeks, we will have interviews with experts and those with lived experience of the psychiatric system.

Thank you for joining us as we discuss the many issues around rethinking psychiatric care around the world.

This week, MIA Radio presents the fifth in a series of
interviews on the topic of the global “mental health” movement.”
This series is being developed through a UMASS Boston initiative
supported by a grant from the Open Society Foundation. The
interviews are being led by UMASS PhD students who also comprise
the Mad in America research news team.

We interview Dr. Gail Hornstein, a Professor of Psychology at
Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. She is the
author of
To Redeem One Person is to Redeem the World: The Life of Frieda
Fromm-Reichmann and, most recently,
Agnes’s Jacket: A Psychologist’s Search for the Meanings of
Madness. In her work, she chronicles both the personal
narratives of people with lived experience of being treated as
“mad,” and also the growing movement of survivor and service-user
activism. Her Bibliography of First-Person Narratives of
Madness in English (now in its 5th edition) lists more than
1,000 books by people who have written about madness from their own
experience; it is used by researchers, clinicians, educators, and
peer groups around the world.

She is now director of a major research and training project
investigating how hearing voices peer-support groups work,
supported by a grant from the Foundation for Excellence in Mental
Health Care. This project is training dozens of new hearing voices
group facilitators across the US and sponsors research to identify
the key mechanisms by which this approach works.

About the Podcast

Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, a new weekly discussion that searches for the truth about psychiatric prescription drugs and mental health care worldwide.
This podcast is part of Mad in America’s mission to serve as a catalyst for rethinking psychiatric care and mental health. We believe that the current drug-based paradigm of care has failed our society and that scientific research, as well as the lived experience of those who have been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder, calls for profound change.
On the podcast over the coming weeks, we will have interviews with experts and those with lived experience of the psychiatric system. Thank you for joining us as we discuss the many issues around rethinking mental health around the world.
For more information visit madinamerica.com
To contact us email podcasts@madinamerica.com